Sunday, October 19, 2025

Suzanne Walker

 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 - The Message. Matthew 9:9-13 (NRSV), Luke 24:28-35 (NRSV)

1Corinthians 11:23-26 - The Message

23-26 Let me go over with you again exactly what goes on in the Lord’s Supper and why it is so centrally important. I received my instructions from the Master himself and passed them on to you. The Master, Jesus, on the night of his betrayal, took bread. Having given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body, broken for you. Do this to remember me. After supper, he did the same thing with the cup: This cup is my blood, my new covenant with you. Each time you drink this cup, remember me. What you must solemnly realize is that every time you eat this bread and every time you drink this cup, you reenact in your words and actions the death of the Master. You will be drawn back to this meal again and again until the Master returns. You must never let familiarity breed contempt.

The Call of Matthew

9  As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-collection station, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. 10  And as he sat at dinner [a]  in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting [b]  with Jesus and his disciples.  11  When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  12  But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  13  Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

Luke 24:28-35 (NRSVUE)

28  As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.  29  But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.  30  When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.  31  Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished from their sight.  32  They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us [a]  while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”  33  That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.  34  They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”  35  Then they told what had happened on the road and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.